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![Kurt Vonnegut Jr.](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1433582280i/2778055._UX200_CR0,51,200,200_.jpg)
“I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not to fill them with satisfaction or glee. I have also told them not to work for companies which make massacre machinery, and to express contempt for people who think we need machinery like that.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
“The terrified men did not move. Then Nadia Fedin did something instinctive; she drew her Nagant revolver and fired three short bursts into the head of the nearest soldier. Stepan Ivanovich’s skull burst like a ripe cabbage showering his horrified comrades with viscous brain and bits of bone.”
― Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two
― Who Has Buried the Dead?: From Stalin to Putin … The last great secret of World War Two
![John Williams](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1519832171i/51229._UY200_CR47,0,200,200_.jpg)
“A war doesn’t merely kill off a few thousand or a few hundred thousand young men. It kills off something in a people that can never be brought back. And if a people goes through enough wars, pretty soon all that’s left is the brute, the creature that we—you and I and others like us—have brought up from the slime.”
― Stoner
― Stoner
![Erich Maria Remarque](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1207351165i/4116._UX200_CR0,45,200,200_.jpg)
“We came to realise - first with astonishment, then bitterness, and finally with indifference - that intellect apparently wasn't the most important thing...not ideas, but the system; not freedom, but drill. We had joined up with enthusiasm and with good will; but they did everything to knock that out of us.”
― All Quiet on the Western Front
― All Quiet on the Western Front
![Fidel Castro](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1480409309i/66099._UX200_CR0,1,200,200_.jpg)
“The ever more sophisticated weapons piling up in the arsenals of the wealthiest and the mightiest can kill the illiterate, the ill, the poor and the hungry, but they cannot kill ignorance, illness, poverty or hunger.”
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![Suzanne Collins](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1630199330i/153394._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“Are you preparing for another war, Plutarch?" I ask.
"Oh, not now. Now we're in a sweet period where everyone agrees that our recent horrors should never be repeated," he says. "But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction. Although who knows? Maybe this will be it, Katniss.”
― Mockingjay
"Oh, not now. Now we're in a sweet period where everyone agrees that our recent horrors should never be repeated," he says. "But collective thinking is usually short-lived. We're fickle, stupid beings with poor memories and a great gift for self-destruction. Although who knows? Maybe this will be it, Katniss.”
― Mockingjay
![Vera Brittain](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1234994028i/213527._UX200_CR0,36,200,200_.jpg)
“Perhaps ...
To R.A.L.
Perhaps some day the sun will shine again,
And I shall see that still the skies are blue,
And feel one more I do not live in vain,
Although bereft of you.
Perhaps the golden meadows at my feet,
Will make the sunny hours of spring seem gay,
And I shall find the white May-blossoms sweet,
Though You have passed away.
Perhaps the summer woods will shimmer bright,
And crimson roses once again be fair,
And autumn harvest fields a rich delight,
Although You are not there.
But though kind Time may many joys renew,
There is one greatest joy I shall not know
Again, because my heart for loss of You
Was broken, long ago.”
― Testament of Youth
To R.A.L.
Perhaps some day the sun will shine again,
And I shall see that still the skies are blue,
And feel one more I do not live in vain,
Although bereft of you.
Perhaps the golden meadows at my feet,
Will make the sunny hours of spring seem gay,
And I shall find the white May-blossoms sweet,
Though You have passed away.
Perhaps the summer woods will shimmer bright,
And crimson roses once again be fair,
And autumn harvest fields a rich delight,
Although You are not there.
But though kind Time may many joys renew,
There is one greatest joy I shall not know
Again, because my heart for loss of You
Was broken, long ago.”
― Testament of Youth
![Erich Maria Remarque](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1207351165i/4116._UX200_CR0,45,200,200_.jpg)
“We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. The first bomb, the first explosion, burst in our hearts. We are cut off from activity, from striving, from progress. We believe in such things no longer, we believe in the war."
- All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 5”
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- All Quiet On The Western Front, Ch. 5”
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![Seth Grahame-Smith](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1645053252i/169377._UY200_CR24,0,200,200_.jpg)
“There are but two types of men who desire war: those who haven’t the slightest intention of fighting it themselves, and those who haven’t the slightest idea what it is. … Any man who has seen the face of death knows better than to seek him out a second time.”
― Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
― Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter
![John Payton Foden](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1684873313i/21949591._UX200_CR0,54,200,200_.jpg)
“At the edge of the field Silva and Stefan witnessed heartrending images in greyscale as thousands of desperate refugees streamed down the road in leaden shades of melancholy. This somber line of tired and dirty humans moved so close together that they jostled each other with each step; their random movements reminded Silva of corks bobbing in a slow moving stream. They watched them pass from the side of the road, but eventually fell-in, trudging along with the suffering others, feeling safer in numbers, hoping for a destination worth finding.”
― Magenta
― Magenta
![Thucydides](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1206544282i/957._UX200_CR0,73,200,200_.jpg)
“For the whole earth is the tomb of famous men; not only are they commemorated by columns and inscriptions in their own country, but in foreign lands there dwells also an unwritten memorial of them, graven not on stone but in the hearts of men. Make them your examples, and, esteeming courage to be freedom and freedom to be happiness, do not weigh too nicely the perils of war."
[Funeral Oration of Pericles]”
― History of the Peloponnesian War
[Funeral Oration of Pericles]”
― History of the Peloponnesian War
![Laini Taylor](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1224474224i/324620._UX200_CR0,27,200,200_.jpg)
“What can a soldier do when mercy is treason, and he is alone in it?”
― Days of Blood & Starlight
― Days of Blood & Starlight
![Sun Tzu](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1185211202i/1771._UX200_CR0,57,200,200_.jpg)
“Bravery without forethought, causes a man to fight blindly and desperately like a mad bull. Such an opponent, must not be encountered with brute force, but may be lured into an ambush and slain.”
― The Art of War
― The Art of War
![Laura Sebastian](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1502725849i/15945524._UY200_CR49,0,200,200_.jpg)
“We are not defined by the things we do in order to survive. We do not apologize for them,” she says quietly, eyes never leaving mine. “Maybe they have broken you, but you are a sharper weapon because of it. And it is time to strike.”
― Ash Princess
― Ash Princess
![Robert Fulghum](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1535564306i/19630._UX200_CR0,40,200,200_.jpg)
“Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air - explode softly - and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air. Floating down to earth - boxes of Crayolas. And we wouldn't go cheap, either - not little boxes of eight. Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in. With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach and lime, amber and umber and all the rest. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination.”
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![Sun Tzu](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1185211202i/1771._UX200_CR0,57,200,200_.jpg)
“Move not unless you see an advantage; use not your troops unless there is something to be gained; fight not unless the position is critical.”
― The Art of War
― The Art of War
“His thoughts went to Kismaayo, and lately, particularly of Abdi. If there were a hero in this story, it was Abdi. Jon thought, this young man from Maine had left that war weary husk of a country called Somalia and had come to these United States of America to pursue the dream of happiness, security, and hope.”
― Las Vegas on Twelve Dollars a Day
― Las Vegas on Twelve Dollars a Day
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